A Diplomatic Cargo of Political Loyalists, Not Nation Builders, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has again expanded Nigeria’s diplomatic convoy, nominating 32 new ambassadors, adding to last week’s earlier submissions. Abuja, Nigeria, 29 November 2025
While the State House frames this as a strategic move to strengthen Nigeria’s ambassadors footprint in global capitals, a deeper look, this is another political recycling plant at full capacity.
Names like Maimuna Ibrahim Besto, Musa Musa Abubakar, Syndoph Paebi Endoni, Chima Geoffrey Lioma David, Mopelola Adeola-Ibrahim, Abimbola Samuel Reuben, Yvonne Ehinosen Odumah, and others dominate the roll call , a list that reads more like a reward chart than a competence index.
These individuals are expected to represent Nigeria in heavy-duty diplomatic battlegrounds such as China, India, Canada, South Korea, UAE, UN, AU, and UNESCO,
Yet their credentials raise more questions than confidence.
Let’s stop pretending , the nation knows what it sees.
This ambassadorial list follows a predictable pattern.
The more politically connected you are, the more “qualified” you suddenly become for complex global work.
And now, with mounting whispers that former INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu may also be lined up for similar diplomatic ambassadors consolation duties.
The Game Becomes Clearer
A nation that struggled through controversial elections is now watching the architects of that chaos get rewarded with internationally
As a global hiding place disguised as national service.
Speaking big grammar on foreign stages, posing for photographs with foreign ministers, or enjoying cleaner air abroad.
Many reveal their ignorance of diplomacy as war, failing to fight with intelligence, policy depth, and national clarity.
These Are Not The Nation’s Best Hands
These political jobbers wear foreign ties, not the nation’s best hands.
Countries like China, UAE, India, and the US run diplomacy like a high-stakes corporate boardroom.
Nigeria, meanwhile, is sending people who were “strategically loyal” , not strategically prepared.
Political appointees are risk-averse, and disconnected from global realities, that’s a dangerous combination.
A chunk of these nominees lack exposure, or intellectual stamina required for modern diplomacy.
They’ll Attend Abroad, Mere Spectators
They will go abroad as spectators, not players.
People who barely understand Nigeria’s internal complexities represent the nation abroad, causing inevitable embarrassment.
Nigeria keeps using foreign missions as retirement homes, political compensation centers, instead of the performance, driven powerhouse.
The World Is Moving Fast
Nigeria cannot keep exporting political misfits and expecting diplomatic miracles.
If this trend continues, the country’s foreign missions will remain underpowered, underperforming, and embarrassingly predictable.
This is not a diplomatic breakthrough, it is a political recycling exercise masquerading as foreign-policy advancement.
WahalaUpdate Media will continue to keep the spotlight where it burns.
